Excerpt from Grasp Your Nettle, Vol. 2: A Novel

In a small apartment in the Rue Saint Antoine sat a dark-haired, pretty little woman of about thirty-five years of age, but so beautifully dressed and so cleverly made up, that she did not look more than twenty-five at most - unless you took her in a cross light, and then you could see the blanc de perle and the rouge de Vénus lying in the tracings by which time had begun to tell the world that Madame Louise Trébuchet was passing to the shady side of her youth.

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